A case card grows into its case study
On this site, a case card now grows into its case study when you open it. The card is the same object, just bigger.
I wanted the move to feel like opening something, not loading a new page.
Getting Valet 1.2 out the door. It's on TestFlight with a few friends, and the text version is ready to follow it. Below is what shipped, newest first.
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On this site, a case card now grows into its case study when you open it. The card is the same object, just bigger.
I wanted the move to feel like opening something, not loading a new page.
Plans now open into a day. Each stop comes with a reason written for the person, not a generic blurb.
Tap a stop and a tray opens with photos, the hours at the time you will be there, the address and a Directions button.
Every stop also sits on one map, in order. You see the shape of the day before you leave the house.
The hair read in Suprema needs clear photos. People are bad at guessing what a good angle is.
I added three photo guides, one for each head angle the read needs. You see the target before you take the shot.
I built a small studio in Remotion for making films. The films use the products' real components, not mockups.
The chip in this loop is Valet's actual interest chip. When the product changes, the film changes with it.
Every plan in Valet gets a poster made from the person's own colors. This took rounds of iterations over two days.
The first system looked fine against my own rules. Then I put it next to real posters and it fell apart. I threw it out and started again.
One line held the whole thing together: an idea is a plan without a day. That decided what the poster has to say.
Each card keeps the person's colour in both schemes.
On black, the card sits on a darker shade of their own colour. Pale cards glared against a dark screen, so I stopped using them there.
Creator Desk is an agency desk for booking creators. Each creator now has a page of their own.
Everything the desk knows about one person sits in one place, so booking starts from the page, not from a search.

I moved the whole app to Timeless Serif and Timeless Sans in one afternoon.
I tuned it area by area, on the phone, not in a design file. Sizes that looked right on a canvas were wrong in the hand.

Nutmeg plans a week of cooking around one household. It now offers three different weeks instead of one.
You pick the week that fits how your next seven days look. Same kitchen, three different ways to run it.
A search bar taught me people type sentences, not keywords. Then the sentence outgrew the bar.
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